TWEET YR IDOLS

Gone are the days when your favorite bands were shrouded in mystery. Have a question? Just ask them on Twitter. How all this immediacy has affected contemporary fan communities is the subject of tonights reading and panel discussion Musical Fanthropology, Distance, and the Critical Gaze, which will explore the changing meanings, technologies, intimacies, and authorities around pop devotion. Daphne Carr, author of the 33 1/3 book on Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine, leads the talk with the Voices music editor Maura Johnston, author Laina Dawes (What Are You Doing Here? Black Women in Metal, Hardcore and Punk), and writer/filmmaker Raquel Cepeda. Thu., April 28, 7 p.m., 2011